US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on July 15 for "Unstructured text classification" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,124, issued on July 15, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Unstructured text classification" was invented by Arunkumar Gururajan (Redmond, Wash.), Jack Wilson Stokes III (Redmond, Wash.) and Farid Tajaddodianfar (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology described herein identifies malicious URLs using a classifier that is both accurate and fast. Aspects of the technology are particularly well adapted for use as a real-time URL security analysis tool because the technology is able to quickly process a URL and produce a warning when a malicious URL is identified. The rapid processi...